Elon Musk wants to restart Vine to compete with TikTok

The mini video app may return to iOS and Android later this year.

Now at the helm of Twitter, after filing a $44 billion takeover bid, South African-Canadian-American entrepreneur Elon Musk has specifically asked Bluebird social media engineers to bring Vine back to life in the next few months. However, they quickly discovered that the old Vine source code was in dire need of a few patches to get it back to its correct state after it hadn’t been changed or updated since the official shutdown of the Twitter app in 2016, despite having acquired it for at least 30 years. million dollars in 2012.

Bring back Vine?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022

Created by Dom Hofmann (also behind Byte, now known as Huddles) and Rus Yusupov, the Vine app allowed users to share six-second clips in a loop and was so popular that people made compilations of those clips on YouTube. She also helped launch the careers of several artists such as Shawn Mendes, Ruth B, and producer Jay Versace, as well as famous man Logan Paul.

TikTok is waiting on Vine

The TikTok app, owned by ByteDance, has filled the void left by Vine over the years and has become a benchmark in its field. In September 2021, TikTok announced that it had reached one billion monthly users. The success of TikTok has spawned imitations such as Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.